Comment on No one really understands our struggle

• AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yeah, for sure - I live in southern California, which has about as high a cost of real estate as you’re going to find, but that isn’t caused by landlords. I mean, if you bought a new car and were selling your old one, you’d probably sell it for whatever the market would pay, right? Maybe if you’re really well off you’d just give it to someone, but most of us are going to sell for the going rate. It’s the same with houses. If I can easily get $500k for my house, I’m not going to list it for $400k just to be nice - I could use the money.

  Do people feel like it’s inherently more laudable to sell their house than to rent it? It seems like, as long as they’re not gouging, they’re doing more of a service by renting to people who can’t afford to buy, and also covering all the costs of repairs and risk of damage that renters don’t have to worry about.

  I just don’t get the hate broadly, though the management company who ran my daughter’s apartment complex were assholes.

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  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I work in a real estate adjacent field, part of the housing issue IS very much because of big companies and people just buying up all the houses to rent them for passive income.

    I don’t care if people have 2 or 3 houses but when they own 8 or 9 or hundreds then yea we have an issue.

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, I agree a hundred percent. In every business, it’s possible to be predatory. Big companies are doing some really shitty things, and we should try to figure out how to stop that.

      But some people are saying that being a landlord is inherently unethical - the moment someone rents a property, they’re a vile leach. I just think that’s wrong.

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